Joshua S. Figueroa has been selected to receive the 2007 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

Professor Joshua S. Figueroa has been selected by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to receive a 2007 New Faculty Award. The award provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000 that is generally made before the new faculty members formally begin their first tenure-track appointment. Recommendations for awards are based on evidence that the nominee has the potential to produce an independent body of scientific scholarship of outstanding quality and will make significant contributions to overall education in the chemical sciences. Nominations are reviewed by distinguished faculty in the field of chemistry.